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This will be a good test for Woodville. Splendora has 9 players back from last season.

I think it will be good for Schools that are on the bubble right now of moving down in classification.

Lady Cardinals Fullerton wants district title Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — Bridge City’s Kayla Fullerton has been waiting years to become a senior. Since starting to play volleyball in Little Spikers around nine years ago, this year is the one she has been waiting on. No more listening to teammates a few years older telling her they are going first. It is her turn. “It has already been the best experience for me,†Fullerton said. “I have always wanted to do the senior stuff. Like on road trips when we go to eat I can finally say, ‘Hey, seniors first.’ “I love the people I am seniors with. I couldn’t even pick a better group of girls to play volleyball with. We have been playing volleyball with each other for so many years, ever since Little Spikers. They have become more than just teammates. They are my best friends.†Bridge City Coach Becca Mathews said she could talk all day and she almost did by spending 15 minutes on a phone interview speaking about Fullerton. “Volleyball is all she does, it is the only sport she really plays,†Mathews added. “That is her life. She can screw up a million times and her attitude is always up. Kayla has come through in the clutch for us this year. She is kind of out of position at middle blocker but it has not shown.†Fullerton had specific reasons for only playing volleyball in high school. “I am not into a sport that has too much contact or tackling,†Fullerton added. “Volleyball of course is a team sport but also you have to have individual skill. Plus, there is way too much running in basketball.†Mathews recently told the senior Lady Cardinals the time was drawing near to create videos for college recruits. “She walked up and said she might not be good enough but that she would be the best cheerleader from the bench a team could have,†Mathews said. “I guarantee she would be too. Kayla would never complain and be happy right there with the team.†Besides all the fun and excitement Fullerton is having, she is also determined to help the Lady Cardinals win. Bridge City finished second in District 21-3A a year ago and were then upset in the bi-district round against Liberty. Both situations have motivated Fullerton and her teammates to work a little harder this season. “Winning is the No. 1 thing on my mind,†Fullerton said. “The main goal is to get first in district. We want to show Bridge City is the best. We have the team to do it. We can take anyone who comes against us.†No doubt the Lady Cardinals are looking to get past the bi-district round and starting setting the bar higher for Bridge City volleyball. “We had a great season last year,†Fullerton said. “We came out and beat everyone in the second round of district. Then the Liberty loss hurt. We will not do that again. Second place is last place to me.†Mathews likes Fullerton’s determination this season and knows the senior is ready to prove last year’s upset in the bi-district will not happen again in 2007. “She is very determined,†Mathews said. “Kayla goes into the games quite like I do. She is going to make a team beat her before she admits they deserve to win. She is very self-motivated and we are picked to lose - she wants to defy the odds.†Mathews has also grown to love Fullerton’s even temper when either she falls on hard times or the team itself is not producing. “Kayla is just a happy kid,†Mathews added. “If she has an awful match, you can see it in her eyes but she is not going to get mad. “She has also become great with our underclassmen. She knows how to talk to them and talks to their level where she does not come off being rude. I like to say she is in ‘Kayla’s World’ and I am dying to join in. I am going to miss her next season.â€

Florida man lies of being former MLB player Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Everyone here knew Bill Henry as an old major league pitcher — at church, around the golf course and certainly at home. The 83-year-old didn’t like to boast, but he had stories. The boys at The 19th Hole lounge at the golf course where the 6-foot-2 lefty retired had to pry for nostalgia, but Henry knew his stuff — his appearance in the 1961 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds, the 1960 All-Star selection, the 16 seasons in the majors. But it turns out the Lakeland man was not the Bill Henry who played major league ball, and the tales he spun are unraveling a week after his death following a heart attack. The former reliever by the same name is alive and well in Texas — stunned someone had claimed his accomplishments for decades. The 79-year-old learned of the impostor after The Associated Press distributed a short obituary. The death — and the bogus history — originally was reported in The Ledger, the local newspaper. “I really can’t understand why a man would do something like that. To impress his family or his neighbors?†said the real pitcher. The Lakeland man’s family isn’t sure when the deception began. His widow, Elizabeth Jean Henry, said the couple met more than two decades ago in Michigan. His third wife, she said she never met her husband’s two children, who are both dead. She said her future husband didn’t mention right away that he was a former big leaguer, but she had no reason to doubt him when it came up. Elizabeth Henry said he didn’t have any memorabilia aside from a few baseball cards — no rings, no trophies, no photos. But she and his stepchildren still believe he played at least some level of minor league ball. “He told me once he could hear his father when he was pitching a game,†Elizabeth Henry said. “He didn’t tell me what game, but he said he could hear his father in the stands calling his name. I don’t think he lied about all that.†The couple moved here 19 years ago after he retired as a salesman, and he was a staple at the Sand Piper Golf and Country Club where the two lived. He met one of his closest friends there — a former semipro pitcher who also never doubted him. Bob McHenry said he played for a team fielded by RCA several decades ago. The two even gave a biannual lecture called “Baseball, Humor and Society†at Florida Southern College, where McHenry was an adjunct professor. “To me there were two relievers at that time — Joe Page for the Yankees and Bill Henry for the Cincinnati Reds,†McHenry said. “It was about the early ’50s that relieving became a big thing in the majors, and so I could accept Bill as that person.†“He knew the names,†McHenry said. “He and I had a lot of opportunities to talk about people in the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s. He knew his stuff.†And the real Bill Henry featured on the baseball cards looked just like the one in Lakeland. “It’s creepy striking — the nose, the face, the squinty eyes,†said Jeanine Hill-Cole, the wife of Henry’s stepson David Cole. “I mean, I’m still here looking at the picture we put in for his obituary, and you’d swear that it was the same man. There were differences, however. The pitcher’s middle name is Rodman, while the Florida man’s middle name was Clarence. The two also had different dates and cities of birth. The Lakeland man had explained to family and friends that the different birth dates were a deliberate deception when he was a prospect to make scouts think he was younger — something that does happen occasionally, even today. “It’s kind of like Antique Road Show. You get this story that’s been handed down and told to you,†Hill-Cole said. “We’re still kind of all in shock.†Some of Henry’s old golf buddies, like 64-year-old Bruce Brandt, still didn’t want to accept the news — Henry always talked with old pros who pile into town each spring when the Detroit Tigers train here. “The guy I knew was a ballplayer,†Brandt said. “He had to be, because everybody knew him.†He would not read The Ledger sitting a few feet away documenting his friend’s apparent lie. The newspaper said it should have done a better job confirming whether the local’s tales were true. “There had been some discussion over the years about doing a story about him,†Ledger executive editor Skip Perez said. “One of our staff writers I think was a member of the same church. You know, in a way I wish we had done the darn story 10 years ago or whatever, because hopefully we would have checked or made a call or something.†Elizabeth Henry said her husband’s health had declined since an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis about three years ago. He lost his driver’s license and used a golf cart to wheel around his retirement community. The six-handicap couldn’t even play 18 holes anymore. “When he passed it was a relief to know he wasn’t suffering anymore,†she said. “He didn’t have to go to a nursing home. So with that I just felt at peace, and I’d like to get on with my life.â€

Get well Ryan!

Volleyball teams headed to tourneys By Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News Area volleyball teams will hit the hardwood for big games this weekend. Nederland, Port Neches-Groves, Bridge City and Dayton travel to the Dickinson Tournament that starts today. Nederland, which is 10-6 overall and 1-1 in District 22-4A, faces Galveston Ball at 9 a.m. Head coach Toni Leach said her team should win the first game but doesn’t know what to expect from the rest of the tournament. She said she thinks her team will play really hard and should be pumped to get back on the floor after losing to Central, which is 5-3 overall and 1-1 in District 22-4A. PN-G (10-6 overall and 2-0 in District 22-4A) opens against Sam Rayburn at 11 a.m. Coach Barbara Comeaux said there are some really strong teams in the tournament. “We want to stay in as long as we can,†Comeaux said, “so we can get as many games in as possible. Our team keeps getting better and with every game we are building confidence. That is the key for us right now. We have to play with confidence.†Bridge City (7-8 overall and 0-1 in District 21-3A) and Dayton will also be participating in the Dickinson Tournament this weekend. Not involved with the tournament, Bridge City is scheduled to play at Little Cypress-Mauriceville on Friday. Nederland will also break away from tournament action to host Hamshire-Fannett, which is 10-6 overall and 1-0 in District 21-3A. The YMBL Tournament also kicks off today and five area teams are set to compete in that tournament. Memorial will start off at 9 a.m. against Crosby at Ozen High School in Beaumont. The other area teams competing in the YMBL are LCM, Orangefield and West Orange-Stark. LC-M is 8-9 overall and 1-1 in District 22-4A, OF is 6-9 overall and 0-1 in District 21-3A while WO-S is 2-10 overall and 0-1 in District 21-3A. In other volleyball action, Friday night Memorial will host Channelview for its district opener. Also on Friday night, WO-S entertains Kountze and Vidor will travel to Dibol. Vidor, 10-8 overall and 0-2 in District 22-4A, will also be in action tonight when it travels to Woodville. All tournaments will continue on Saturday for the teams playing non-district games on Friday.

JOURNALIST AND NBA LEGEND JOIN TENNIS EXHIBITION LINE-UP September 5, 2007 - 5:49PM BEAUMONT, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 — Emmy Award winning journalist, Stone Phillips and NBA legend, John Lucas will join tennis stars Pete Sampras, Anna Kournikova, Todd Martin and Chanda Rubin for the CHRISTUS Pro/Celebrity Classic presented by Texas State Bank at Ford Arena in Beaumont, Texas on September 21, 2007. Stone Phillips has co-anchored Dateline NBC for the last fifteen years and is considered one of the most respected journalists in television today. His 2005 analysis on the government's response to Hurricane Katrina won Dateline NBC an Alfred I. DuPont award. Phillip's has interviewed world leaders, rock-stars and serial killers. He recently anchored NBC's coverage from Blacksburg, VA on the massacre at Virginia Tech, the nations most deadly shooting. In college, Phillip's was the starting quarterback for Ivy League Champion Yale University. He was born in Texas City, Texas and resides in New York City. NBA Legend, John Lucas played fourteen years in the NBA and went on to serve as Head Coach for the San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Lucas began his 14-year NBA playing career during the 1976-77 season. He was the first overall selection in the 1976 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets. John was named to the NBA All-Rookie team in 1977 after averaging 11.1 ppg on .477 (388-814) FG% with 5.6 apg for the Rockets. In 1986 he helped lead the Houston Rockets to the NBA Finals. He is currently working as a private coach to NBA great Anfernee Hardaway in Houston. John attended University of Maryland where he was All-American in both basketball and tennis. "We are very excited to have these two outstanding individuals participate in our event. I know Southeast Texans will enjoy seeing them play and welcome them to the area, said Tim Stallard, President of Prolink Sports & Entertainment. "Stone and John are looking forward to playing and helping us in our effort to support the Children’s Miracle Network," added Stallard. Event Info Pete Sampras, Anna Kournikova, Todd Martin and Chanda Rubin will participate in the CHRISTUS Pro/Celebrity Classic presented by TEXAS STATE BANK at Ford Arena on Friday, September 21st at 7:30pm; doors will open at 6:30pm. Ticket prices are $59 and $39. Tickets are available at the Ford Park box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, including Macy’s in Parkdale Mall, FYE in Central Mall, and H.E.B. on Dowlen Road. Charge by phone at 409-833-7747 in Southeast Texas, 337-474-4900 in Lake Charles/Lafayette, and 713-629-3700 in the Houston area. Purchase online at www.ticketmaster.com. All Ticketmaster outlets are subject to a service charge. Ford Park Box Office is located at 5115 I-10 South in Beaumont and regular hours are weekdays 10am - 5pm

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Here is an interview to listen to from the UIL Director from a site near Austin. Once the site comes up scroll down to the Aug. 15 (8-15) Archived show and click on it. Once that comes up you have to move your real Player time to 43 minutes into the show. That's when the interview begins. [Hidden Content]

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Good predictions!

Kountze HJ And a fight for 3rd

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New Rocket Reed arrested for marijuana possession JACKSON, Miss. — Rockets swingman Justin Reed was released Wednesday after being arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Reed was arrested Tuesday night in Jackson. He was released from the Hinds County jail early Wednesday, said Capt. Ken Magee of the Hinds County Sheriff's Department. Reed was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, which carries a fine from $100 to $250. No date has been set for his appearance in Hinds County court. In June, Reed and point guard Mike James were traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Rockets in a deal that sent Juwan Howard to Minnesota. Reed, who played at Mississippi, averaged 2.6 points and 1.1 rebounds in 41 games last season for the Timberwolves.

NBA refs can use instant replay to review fights, some flagrant fouls Associated Press NEW YORK -- NBA referees will be able to use instant replay to review altercations and some flagrant fouls starting this season. The NBA Board of Governors voted last week to approve the changes recommended by the league's Competition Committee. Officials will be allowed to use replay on the more severe type of flagrant foul, known as the penalty 2. Because a flagrant-2 results in an ejection, the committee ruled that reviewing such infractions was appropriate. Referees also will be able to use replay after an altercation to ensure that no punches or other unsportsmanlike actions are missed in determining penalties. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

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7:30 start instead of 7.

Carthage beat Henderson last year in week 0. They lost to them last week.